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healthy vegetarian food eating tips
misecmisc1
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hi all,
please share some healthy vegetarian food eating tips/foods - especially things which can be eaten raw.
i have been eating a raw clove of garlic daily from last week - i take it without anything else in evening, after that drink water and then tea - when i eat raw clove of garlic, there is a feeling of some burning sensation in my stomach - this does not last long, may be for a minute and after drinking water, this sensation usually goes away. so anybody here which has an experience of eating raw garlic? due to this raw garlic eating, i do not have any other problem currently from last week except feeling of some burning sensation in my stomach, which i said above. so please suggest if i should continue or discontinue eating raw garlic currently.
regarding omega-3, which i heard is available in fish, any suggestion for getting it in any veg diet.
any food, which helps in reduction of degrading eye-sight - or which helps keep eyes healthy.
any other healthy veg foods either raw or by preparing.
thanks in advance.
please share some healthy vegetarian food eating tips/foods - especially things which can be eaten raw.
i have been eating a raw clove of garlic daily from last week - i take it without anything else in evening, after that drink water and then tea - when i eat raw clove of garlic, there is a feeling of some burning sensation in my stomach - this does not last long, may be for a minute and after drinking water, this sensation usually goes away. so anybody here which has an experience of eating raw garlic? due to this raw garlic eating, i do not have any other problem currently from last week except feeling of some burning sensation in my stomach, which i said above. so please suggest if i should continue or discontinue eating raw garlic currently.
regarding omega-3, which i heard is available in fish, any suggestion for getting it in any veg diet.
any food, which helps in reduction of degrading eye-sight - or which helps keep eyes healthy.
any other healthy veg foods either raw or by preparing.
thanks in advance.
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Dark Chocolate YaY!
White and green tea Yay!
Kale and other dark green leafy vegetables
You can also take a multi-vitamin with lutein such as 'I caps'
They're extremely nutritious too... must get me some!!
Maybe I'll call then "Yum noodles" - !
One thing I would add to the list, is berries. They are incredibly good for you, especially if you can find them organic or pick them wild. Low on sugar compared to things like apples, oranges and bananas and high in antioxidants. I medium apple, banana or orange has about 3 times the carb/sugar as a cup of berries.
@Jeffrey I also love olives, they also go really well with tomatoes.
Raw Ginger root might be better if garlic is burning your stomach. Has similar healing properties but might be less harsh. Just cut up little bits and chew away.
I am a big fan of juicing - you get more nutrients which your body absorbs more easily. The best is a centrifugical one which removes the fiber. (You can get enpugh fiber in other foods). My twice daily drink is several stocks of kale, celery, ginger root, tumeric root, lemon and two apples. And i throw in things like carrots, berries and beets and anything else that is starting to get over ripe.
My optomotrist tells me I've got of the most healthy eyes he's seen.
I use hemp protein in my oatmeal and salads and sometimes juices for protein and omegas.
I also excersise alot and do a sugar-free whey protein powder after a workout.
I was eating it raw, in capsules and cooked to deal with candida. Now I chop it, leave it for ten minutes or longer, the oxidisation improves the efficacy. Add it a minute before cooking has finished.
Raw fruit and veg, very healthy, cleanses the mind and body. Don't become a health freak. Middle way. Be healthy. Stay well.
need some advice from you all.
when i was drinking alcohol/beer nearly 2 years back along with having chicken/meat/fish, then i accummulated some fat in my body and as per my family members, i looked healthy at that time(though my family members did not know i drank at that time).
since it is almost 2 years since i have left drinking alcohol/beer and left eating non-veg food, some of my fat has removed from my body.
just to give you some background, from my 15 years of age till almost something like 24 years of age, i was a thin, skinny person - you can get some idea like my height is around 5ft8inch and my weight was around 45 kg. i guess some of the reasons why my body never became healthy was that i was not interested in playing outdoor games, no physical exercises, also due to that nightfall problem of semen getting discharged from my body in my dreams in sleep with the frequency of 3 to 4 times in a week continuously for almost 14 years starting from 14 years of age till around i got married.
then after 24 years of age, i started drinking beer and then almost all type of alcoholic drinks, (i was eating non-veg from my childhood, so this continued - even though, my mother is vegetarian, so she did not prepared non-veg food, but my father got it prepared in his friend's house and then brought it and then i and my father had non-veg in our food, while my mother prepared veg food for herself) - so after this, i think my weight increased to somewhere around 58kg in the next 4 years - then after this i struck spirituality when i read Bhagwad Geeta and in Bhagwad Geeta, Lord Krishna taught that we should not eat non-veg food and not drink any alcoholic substance - so after reading this, i left eating non-veg food and stopped taking alcoholic drinks for the last 2 years nearly (though strictly at least in the last 1 year) till now.
now in these 2 years, my weight has dropped to something around 53kg over the past few months due to me getting affected with some skin infections, which are cured now by medicines. my family members are saying i have become weak and the fat which used to appear on my face has diminished and i look thin and skinny to them.
so the advice i need from you all is - how should i change my eating habits(means what type of things should i eat more) to gain fat so that i don't look thin and skinny? i take breakfast, lunch, dinner - so which should be the most important (heavy) diet in my eating out of these three? should i try to gain some fat to make my body strong - or - is it ok to be thin, skinny? moreover, suppose my body structure is such that even though how much i eat, i still will remain thin, then my concern is - how to make sure that my bones are healthy, so that when i get old i do not suffer from the problem that due to my bones being weak, at old age they start getting damaged - so how to make my bones healthy?
these questions came to my mind, so thought of getting advice from you all. as far as which type of food i wish to continue on, i think for the time being, i am thinking on going on with vegetarian food only as i have continued for at least 1 year now. i am from northern india, from the plain region, so we have plenty of vegetarian food available here throughout the year. so to eat non-veg food here is only because of taste purpose or with the desire of making the body look healthy with fat put on, like the advertisements of gyms with healthy guys. i want to look somewhat healthier than my skinny look currently, but i will not eat non-veg food just for me looking better in society. so currently i think to continue on veg food only. so please suggest on above questions, keeping vegetarian food only in perspective. thanks in advance.
metta to all sentient beings.
The question is not is it ok to be thinner or fatter. The question is, are you healthy? If not, then that is what you need to work on, not worrying about your body type. A lot of people just seem to criticize others because they look different, or even sometimes because they feel self-conscious in your presence. A friend of mine who is overweight, and very short so it shows more readily, has a husband who lost 80 pounds. He is now tall and thinner, and looks great and is far happier and healthier but his wife always tells him he's too thin, in part because she was used to his chubbier frame, and in part (so she has told me) because she no longer feels attractive in his presence. He also quit smoking while she has not. So, what other people think of you is not your concern. How you feel and how healthy you are, is. But, if you are sedentary, that has an impact too, no matter how good you eat. The body was meant to move, not sit around all day so make sure you put in some type of exercise. It doesn't have to be punishing, you can often turn other things you enjoy into exercise if you do them on a more regular basis.
Wheat, and any gluten-bearing grains, are not good for you. At all.
Since stopping wheat, my whole system is cleaner, fresher and I suffer no cramps, and believe it or not - do NOT break wind! Seriously!!
but now, since my work-city is different from my native city, so in my work-city, this option of buying wheat grains and then cleaning it by removing unwanted stuff from the grains, then washing the grains and drying them in sun and then taking the ok wheat grains to mill for wheat flour - is too cumbersive or hectic - so now i am buying wheat flour directly from super-markets and then my wife prepares chapatti from that wheat flour. so does buying wheat flour from super-markets unhealthy these days? please suggest. thanks in advance.
Look online for a documentary about it called Bad Seed: The Truth about our Food. Aside from the health concerns so many people experience, they are (IMO) a bad, bad company and they have wormed their way into the agriculture in most countries now, sadly.
So, for you in India, the wheat you get probably is in-country grown, more the old-fashioned way grown. So for you is probably different than for us in US. If you get bloated when eating wheat, you may be eating imported wheat, though.
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But to give a balanced objective:
I think what it comes down to, is the proof of the pudding is in the - NOT - eating!
All I can say is that I personally feel measurably better now, than I have in a long time.
I still eat some carbs, such as in rice (very occasionally) and Quinoa (very often) so I'm not going ENTIRELY without.
But the fundamental point is that each person must try it for themselves.
in order to gain weight, out of breakfast, lunch and dinner - is there any order in which these diets should be heavy? means which should be the most heavy diet and which lightest? considering the fact that i work in an office from nearly 10am to nearly 7pm and also i am currently on vegetarian foods only. any idea, please. thanks in advance.
I'm not a nutritionist, but I do know that if you eat more in the evening you'll put on weight through fat as you're taking in lots of calories before being sedentary for a long time when asleep.
You will have a hard time gaining body fat being vegetarian, but you can healthfully increase the # of calories you eat by adding a handful of nuts a couple times a day. The general rules is that a pound of fat is 3500 calories. If you really NEED to gain fat (and not just weight or body shape) then you need to add 500 calories to your diet every day, 7 days a week to gain 1 pound a week. You would need about 3/4 of cup of raw (unsalted) nuts a day to do that. Trying to do that in leafy greens would be almost impossible since most of them are about 30 calories per cup...20 cups of greens is a lot...lol. Nuts are a good way to add healthy fats and calories to a veggie diet. If you eat eggs, they are another good option both for some extra calories and protein. Eat some peanut butter (healthy fats and protein and calories) with your lunch and some nuts during the day, that'll help up your calorie intake pretty quickly.